I had one those..learn-about-innards toys when I was small. A human shaped clear plastic body shell, about 9 inches tall, you could see all the good stuff inside of him. I call it him, to have something to call it.I should call it proto-type-icky-fellow, but 'him' will do nicely.The toy's goal of course was to teach organ placement, not necessarily function, so that if the fellow in front of you on the public bus were to mysteriously tear right open, you could say ' hey those are lungs" but not consequently, "hey those allow you to breathe."..(and of course only when in the proper place).So, the toy had properly placed organs, properly coloured for the most part as well, a variety of frothy pinks, a dark brown liver...all except the brain, which if I recall correctly was a rather yolkish yellow. My favourite part, even if sunnyside all over, I would often pop it out of the split skull and carry it in the pocket of my jeans.The odd plasticky talisman of smarts, i carried like a trophy. As a hunter would tote a pelt on his belt, a Native American warrior, a scalp...I had conquered my non-frankenstein's monster, that i had just as frequently taken apart as put together and expected no lightning driven ressurection from... rather, dreaded actually.I never left plasticky innard man near any windows.. you know, just incase...what if there were a storm whilst i was out? Wouldn't want to come home to that, a freshly re-animated, godless (except for I) plastic-gut man, especially if I had his brain in my pocket!

Trophy brain aside, i did learn much from the nasty half-man.I learned that people are made of way too many yucky bits, wet cogs, slippery gears. Definitely way too involved with our environment, all our pieces/parts, our "natural habitat".That recycling oxygen kept our blood red, our minds conscious, our lungs full and empty then full then empty.That we had skeletons, brittle and inside of us, practically useless in a lead and iron and tsunami blessed environment. It makes us stand up, and face our mortality head on. HA! Toxic amoeba seeking-bipedal transport, us. Our religion is primal muck. Divine animal, or absolute valorous acts of bull.sh.it evolution? Squishy, I say..we are... squishy. Miracle or bust!!

Ah, the sainted mortal coil.. Vessel of our hope and lessons. If we believe in reincarnation, have we surpassed through repetition our may-as-well-be-boneless state of fragility? That is the question. My question, anyhow.

This reverie was begun at all, because today on the hapless shelves of a retail giant I found an upgraded verison of teach-via-gore plasticky look-at-my-da.mned-guts man! His frame was about half the size of original plasticky, come-all-apart-man.There was no even frugal attempt at musculature, NO skeleton.. nada..none. One good tsunami and this guy would be all over the place. There were, on the other hand, orange lungs, yellow stomach and intestine, bright blue spine and half-throat. Attached to nothing was a cheese green brain, a mere silhouette behind the skull-less face. All anyone reasonable could glean from this primo model of uber-evolved humanity was that people are all tube-fed, artificially respirated, catheter relieved bags of impending waste. I nearly drew up a tiny living will to fold into it's tiny plasticky hand, you know.. just in case of judicial interference with this poor suc.kers consciousness. Sign 'o the times? I would say so, day-glo innard man probably feeds off of cloned legless chickens and supersized Cokes laced with toilet water ice cubes a la quickie mart. Of course shoved whole down his feed tube.Did i pine for the original plasticky come all apart man upon discovery of q.ueer eye for my organs guy ? Yeah, kinda. I'd lose that tiny cheese green brain in my big ol' pocket for sure.

Only one thing bothered me about both models. The lack of genitalia. The rounded off hump where real individuals keep their baby-making equipment. If we have all this life splayed open for our perusal and digestion, (no pun intended..well yeah ok, it was) shouldnt we see where two bodies gainfully try to come up with a third? Plasticky man has either been altered, spayed, or neutered drastically to stunt our education. Not even a faithfully drawn fig leaf to cover the get-out-of-Eden bits...just removal. Heck, we know we'd peek, wise gesture on their censorshipsparts.. (non-parts..! ) Now, just how many kids think they're deformed for having angsty sex bits? labotomy anyone?

(Essay by Pen, Photo by Breelash!)

Another great one,it made me smile. Nice uh..Christmas light. It should be included in the kit.

glad "the light"is not blue Pen...
great essay ..wish I had teachers like you when I was a kid..

Now... wait a minute here.....
Are you making fun of me?

Well, even if you are, it's brilliant.

Nevertheless, you'll be hearing from my lawyers.

(ps. tell bree that's the best shot of my sainted mortal coil I've ever seen.... A+)

finally something to make Alex speak..

lmfao @ the picture! Its amazing to read these passages by you, Pen, because you can literally see how your mind works, and its brilliant, you.

I lurve it when my Ducky smiles !!

LHS... what a intensely great thing to say, thank you and ...LOLOLOL!!!

Alex!! Lawyers or not,we still have the negatives!! expect blackmail!! HAHA!!! btw your avatar is precious,rofl.

LIL!!! lol, thank you, I am see inside the brain come apart person!!! \o/ Thanks for reading!!

LOL@ Alex's kitty cat smoking. cute.

Pen you should see if P o r n star will do that...cause you know..with a name like p o r n star you should smoke.

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LOL@ Alex's kitty cat smoking. cute.

Pen you should see if P o r n star will do that...cause you know..with a name like p o r n star you should smoke.

ROTFLMFAO. I will go and ask him to right now!!! Alex' kitty is a bad arsed influence!!! Like anyone in this house needs that!! LOLOLOL

lmao..*sends P or n star a cigar* because that would just look way cooler. He needs a black top hat too.. and I need a life..LMAO.

great as always penster!

hey great to see alex the wizard dude lol love the kitty smoking

those dolls have a severe case of p enis envy.
maybe they should lok into that commercial about natural male enhancement. bob looks like a pretty happy fella, losing his bathing suit in the pool. of course, the commercial never actually explains what they are enhancing.

Very cool Pen

I LOVE it pen. I always love your work.

Snoops, Syd, Quinn, Michael, thanks for reading y'all are spiffytastic

Slim? F.uck the hell off, and consider your further posts ignored. K?